PersonAD 741
Leo III the Isaurian
Also called: Leo the Isaurian
Byzantine emperor (r. 717–741) who repelled the Arab siege of Constantinople and began iconoclasm in 726
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Iconoclasm, begun in 726 when the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the veneration of images, provoked the opposition of the Roman Church and drove the eastern and western churches apart.
Themes this person appears in
- Medieval Europe and ByzantiumAD 476 – 1077
From the fall of Rome in the West to Canossa — the feudal West built by the Franks and the papacy, Byzantium as heir of Rome, and a church divided east and west